This ruined structure is situated in a retired spot on the Gareloch, a branch of the Frith of Clyde, and about one mile from Garelochhead. It has consisted of a single chamber (Fig. 949), measuring about 37 feet 10 inches long by 17 feet 9 inches wide inside. The walls are in a very broken down condition, but, fortunately, the east gable is well preserved. From the style, the building would at once, except in the West Highlands, be considered of thirteenth century date, but in that locality it may have been somewhat later. There are two lancet windows in the east end (Fig. 950), a Plan of which is given to a large scale (Fig. 951), from which, and from the interior view (Fig. 952), it will be seen that they are widely splayed towards the interior, and have round arches, slightly flattened on the top. [Illustration: FIG. 950.--Faslane Church. East End.] [Illustration: FIG. 951.--Faslane Church. Plan of Lancet Windows.] In the north wall, adjoining the east end, there is the usual ambry, chocked for a door. Alongside the ambry are the remains of a window jamb. Probably the entrance was in the south wall, near the west end. [Illustration: FIG. 952.--Faslane Church. Interior of East End.] In the thirteenth century the castle of Faslane occupied an almost impregnable summit, at the junction of two glens. “Near to the castle there was a chapel, dedicated, it is supposed, to St. Michael, with a burying-ground attached, and, a little beyond it, a mound, where the priest’s house is reported to have stood.”[193] This church was probably that now illustrated. The old castle was originally occupied by the Earls of Lennox or members of their family, but, before 1400, it was forsaken for Inchmurran, in Loch Lomond. In the fourteenth century Alan of Faslane married Margaret, the only daughter of Donald, the sixth earl, and so acquired the honours of the earldom. In the sixteenth century Faslane was feued to Archibald M‘Aulay of Ardincaple; and about the middle of the eighteenth century the ruined castle furnished a shelter to the last representative of that family. INDEX. Abailard, 1. Abdie, 218. ---- St. Magridin’s Church, 293. Aberdalgie, Monument at, 551. Aberdeen, King’s College, 285, 445, 504. Abernethy, 86, 209. Altyre Church, Morayshire, 290. Amiens Cathedral, 65. Anderson, Joseph, 209, 210. ---- R. Rowand, architect, 92. Apses and square east ends, 4. Arbroath Abbey, 2, 3, 4, 218, 332; description, 30. ---- Abbot’s House, 49. ---- ---- Regality Court-house, 48. Arbuthnot, 92. Architecture, New development of, 1. ---- in Scotland, gap in, 331. Ardchattan, 146, 245. Aroise Abbey, Artois, France, 230. Auchindoir Church, Aberdeenshire, description, 281. Balmerino Abbey, description, 505. Barrel Vaults, 333. Batten, E. Chisholm, 147, 245, 395, 399, 402, 543. Bays, Design of, 4. Beauly Priory, 2, 146; description, 245. Beverley Minster, 363. Billings, R., 122, 389. Birnie Church, 121.